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Former local smart-ass Noel Black relieves Batman of some dingleberries, Marina looks pleased.

Snowball's chance.

Annyong is looking pointedly away from the camera here to comment on this piece (which takes its cue from this piece from Politico last week stating that there is simply no way in hell that Hillary can clinch the nomination.

Now I know many of you will chime in with your "Blah de blah, it's all just a charade, the true puppet masters are the corporate interests, blah blah Paul/Gravel '08 blah," but this to me is an interesting bit of political theater in its own right. From Politico:

One big fact has largely been lost in the recent coverage of the Democratic presidential race: Hillary Rodham Clinton has virtually no chance of winning.

Her own campaign acknowledges there is no way that she will finish ahead in pledged delegates. That means the only way she wins is if Democratic superdelegates are ready to risk a backlash of historic proportions from the party’s most reliable constituency.

Unless Clinton is able to at least win the primary popular vote — which also would take nothing less than an electoral miracle — and use that achievement to pressure superdelegates, she has only one scenario for victory. An African-American opponent and his backers would be told that, even though he won the contest with voters, the prize is going to someone else.

People who think that scenario is even remotely likely are living on another planet.

The assumption here is that the media swallows the Clinton line about the closeness of the campaign because it does make for a more dramatic story, which certainly sells papers. It's a narrative manufactured through and through by the Clinton campaign, who're perhaps planning on an eleventh-hour win—and only then if folks switch their pledges. HILLARY CLINTON WILL BE PRESIDENT! NO DEMOCRACY CAN STOP HER!

Annyong on Wisconsin, Hawaii primaries, Obama's tenth straight win, Hillary's "fading" campaign.

Batman is on sabbatical and will return soon with expert election analysis.

After Much Consideration, Batman on the Super Tuesday Results

Batman and Jack on the Michigan Primary

Batman Responds to Hillary's Victory in NH

Re: Batman's Election Analysis, Jan. 8, 2007—Annyong begs to disagree.

Batman's Election Analysis, Jan. 8, 2007